Do, or do not. There is no 'try'. - Yoda

Save Me Jeebus!
by Lee

Via Sulivan comes this gem.

A lawmaker says the state’s Homeland Security office should be crediting God with keeping the state safe.

State Rep. Tom Riner, a Southern Baptist minister who was instrumental in establishing that requirement in 2006, disapproves of the fact that Homeland Security doesn’t currently mention God in its mission statement or on its Web site.

The law passed under former Gov. Ernie Fletcher, who prominently credited God in annual reports to state leaders. But Gov. Steve Beshear’s administration didn’t credit God in its 2008 Homeland Security report issued last month.

“We certainly expect it to be there, of course,” Riner, D-Louisville, told the Lexington Herald-Leader.

The law that organized the Homeland Security office first lists Homeland Security’s duty to recognize that government itself can’t secure the state without God, even before mentioning other duties, which include distributing millions of dollars in federal grants and analyzing possible threats.

I find it amusing that Kentucky even has a Homeland Security department to begin with, given the number of high-value terrorist targets in that state. As for the rest of it, well, you can write your own jokes. There’s just too many possibilities.

I wonder, though, if they realize that Iran’s national security documents probably mention God before any other consideration.

Posted by Lee on 12/01/08 at 07:59 PM (Discuss this in the forums)

Comments

Posted by on 12/01/08 at 08:28 PM from

Isn’t Kentucky the location of the Creation Museum ...

Posted by West Virginia Rebel on 12/01/08 at 08:44 PM from

flogg: Yes it is.

Nice-looking country down there, though…

Posted by mikeguas on 12/01/08 at 08:52 PM from

I was just in Newport/Covington Ketucky area over the weekend as I live a few miles into OH. Plenty of booze, bars, and smokes. Makes up for a lot of things.

Posted by HARLEY on 12/01/08 at 08:58 PM from

I find it amusing that Kentucky even has a Homeland Security department to begin with, given the number of high-value terrorist targets in that state. As for the rest of it, well, you can write your own jokes. There’s just too many possibilities.

Oak Ridge

Posted by on 12/01/08 at 09:23 PM from

I find it amusing that Kentucky even has a Homeland Security department to begin with, given the number of high-value terrorist targets in that state.

Yeah, it’s not like Ft. Knox, the north side of Ft. Campbell, or Abraham Lincoln’s birthplace are high-value targets or anything. Nor all the barge shipping ports along the Ohio River. Kentucky is clearly a worthless backwater with nothing of value.

Posted by Hal_10000 on 12/02/08 at 12:45 AM from

Oak Ridge

Tennessee.

Yeah, it’s not like Ft. Knox, the north side of Ft. Campbell, or Abraham Lincoln’s birthplace are high-value targets or anything. Nor all the barge shipping ports along the Ohio River. Kentucky is clearly a worthless backwater with nothing of value.

Fort Knox is a military base, incidentally. And we can’t protect everything. Where do you think we should concentrate our resources—spiritual or otherwise—one of a zillion barge ports or the Empire State Building?

Posted by HARLEY on 12/02/08 at 04:28 AM from

Jesus did i have a fucking brain fart.,

Posted by on 12/02/08 at 05:30 AM from

Nice-looking country down there, though…

Yes, my husband’s family is originally from Cincinnati and we pass through on the way ...

Posted by mikeguas on 12/02/08 at 06:40 AM from

Yes, my husband’s family is originally from Cincinnati and we pass through on the way ...

Does he like their chili? They have a weird chili out here in Cinci that all the locals seem to like.

Posted by on 12/02/08 at 06:49 AM from

Does he like their chili? They have a weird chili out here in Cinci that all the locals seem to like.

Heh, they are descended from the Lytles, so they love everything Cincinnati. We have framed copies of the Cinci land grants on our walls. If you mean Skyline Chili, yes his family always has to go to Skyline for chili and stock up on Graeter’s ice cream. I once had 8 pints of Double Chocolate chip in my freezer.

As for me, I love the ice cream, not so hot on the chili. It gave me heartburn, and I am a grease-loving, salt-licking woman, so that is saying something.

Posted by mikeguas on 12/02/08 at 07:04 AM from

I’ve noticed already Lytle is a big name out here. I agree with the icecream, that stuff is good. The Skyline, I can do without. I guess I’m just used to Texas style chili. Nice town here though and the people seem friendly. The zoning laws are a little unique. Million dollar home on one side of the street, and a 30K home on the other.

Posted by on 12/02/08 at 07:09 AM from

When did you move there, Section8?

Posted by mikeguas on 12/02/08 at 07:21 AM from

I moved out here in early Oct, then had to go right back a few weeks later for business. Now I’m back and I’m finally getting settled in. Just in time for winter.

Posted by on 12/02/08 at 07:36 AM from

I was there one Christmas. It does get nippy :-) ...

Posted by mikeguas on 12/02/08 at 07:42 AM from

Yeah, it gets cold here. I’m used to 70 degree winters. It will be fun though. I would like to see snow during Christmas for once.

Posted by on 12/02/08 at 08:23 AM from

Fort Knox is a military base, incidentally. And we can’t protect everything. Where do you think we should concentrate our resources—spiritual or otherwise—one of a zillion barge ports or the Empire State Building?

This is a ridiculous rebuttal. Lee’s unwarranted snark that there wasn’t anything of value in Kentucky that warranted Homeland Security protection is what prompted my comment; furthermore, the fact that Ft. Dix is also a military base didn’t prevent Bosnian Muslims from plotting an attack on the installation, and we knew that Al Qaeda was keeping tabs on base activities at my relatively innocuous Air Force in Colorado. The designation that this is a military base should not prevent Homeland Security from committing at least some resources towards maintaining a presence, even if it is a low-key one. Your comment implies that it is completely unnecessary; perhaps that is not what you meant, but that’s not how it comes across.

Your assertion that our resources should be “concentrated” is also silly. Like it or not, that barge traffic is just as crucial to the nation’s economic health as the Empire State Building, if not more so (and if you want to talk about concentrating resources, then the nation’s dams outweigh the Empire State Building by a large margin in terms of importance.).

You and Lee seem to be making the argument that there is nothing in Kentucky worth devoting Homeland Security resources towards, when that is clearly incorrect.

Posted by on 12/03/08 at 04:25 PM from